Feint Literacy 101 (Console Edition)

Feinting: The act of cancelling an attack during an windup for the purpose of tricking a foe into an early parry. This can be done with slash, overhead, stab, and alternates.

Counter strategy: with practice, one can avoid being feinted by applying different strategies…

Gambling (or g0mbling): is the act of attacking through a percieved/predicted feint by your opponent, this is the most common strategy applied, but commonly leads to hittrades.

Kicking: Interrupt a feint attempt by kicking away your opponent. This is also useful for saving yourself if you fell for a feint. This is also considered a gamble strategy (see above) so hittrading is a danger here as well, kick attempts can also phase through your opponent and fail.

Prediction: If you are used to how a certain opponent fights, then you can probably tell whether or not an opponent will feint–if they are being predictable and dont change up strategy on you. This is argueably a gamble strategy (see above).

Reading: This is the pinnacle of feint-counter mastery; listen for the grunt that your opponent makes before an attack before you start parrying, watch the arm movement, and dont hold LT until the attack release. This takes much practice and may lead to tunnel-vision.

Conclusion: There is no easy, clear-cut way. It takes a mix of skill and a little luck.

To expand on double parries, if you fall for a feint early, you can create distance and attempt to parry again. I usually do this by matrixing away to create as much space as possible and spamming parry.

To expand on double parries, if you fall for a feint early, you can create distance and attempt to parry again. I usually do this by matrixing away to create as much space as possible and spamming parry.

Yeah I saw that reddit topic before but there was nothing like it in the console subforum so I wanted to briefly list some tips here. To those reading, definately click the link above.

@Village-Elder
Just as effective to do the opposite. I stead of double parrying run into their swing and crouch to maximize the parry box and get as much time out of your parry as possible. DONT crouch for overheads though

Informative post.
Personally, l don’t feint much. That half swing time and stamina could be better used to actually do damage. When I do feint, it’s all the more effective because it’s so unexpected.
Feints are most effective when you swing from a different angle than feinted strike, especially stab.
Feint to kick is pretty good…